Armand Assante Quotes
I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
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My tactic is to make eyes at someone.
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Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.
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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
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I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.
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I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
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When I'm drawing a bottle or a town or a market, I transport myself there. So I start drawing everything that I'm looking at while I'm there. Here's a guy selling the meat, and he will have a hook, and you start adding things, and it's a lot of fun.
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I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.
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I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
